Monessen High School - Greyhound Yearbook (Monessen, PA)

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mmmE mHgmff3jWKf5mmimimm.Emmmm -- i Members nf the jfanultp H. E. GRESS - - Supvrintvndvnt C. R. MscLEL1.AND . . . Principal-Civirs ANNA K. KINGSLEY . - Englisli SARAH F. BAKER . - Latin n EESSIE PRESTON Hislniy W. H. NEELY - - Physivs ' H. K. RICHARDSON Comrnvrcial . v1Rc:IN1A IRWIN . - . French VERNA M. RIFENBERICK - . Lniin VERA FROST - - Algebra V FREDA GILCHRIST - - Commercial W KATHERINE EEGGS - - English gb MARY HANNIGAN - - - History F MARY RYAN - - Latin-Srfivnrv ETHEI. POWNEY - - . Algl-bra E HETTIE HUNDERTMARK - . English MABEL HQGUE - - -English ISABEL BLYHULDER - . Gi-nnii-lfy 5 ETHEL DAVIS - . . Algglirn VERNA BRAND ' . History ONETA olcoNNoR - Cooking ' ol.A McCLEANE - - Svwing W. F. BLACKBURN . - - clisinislry , NORMAN HESS - - - Mechanical Drawing CHARLES M. HELWIG - . Manual Training ETHEL HAMILTON . . Physical Training MAX DOERING - Physical Training . mmm?HflmurmnliimW'UHEmmmE3t3SiQaEm599imFmmWlE'mmfE 5

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esterhap, Qllnhap ant: Ulnmnrrntn Robert Maurer Sometimes, when we stop to look back and review the advance- ment in the last few years, it seems incredible that any nation could advance as rapidly in all branches as the United States has advanced. This progress has been especially marked in the public schools of the country. U The Monessen High School, too, has improved since its founda- tion. The Hrst High School was founded in the Jefferson building in the year 1901. ln 1904 there were four graduates and in the same year the course was changed from three years to four years. In january of 1915 the High School was moved to the Sixth Street building. In the fall of 1915 one hundred seventy-nine pupils were enrolled. In September, 1921, the highest enrollment on record was reached, when seven hundred thirty students were enrolled of whom eighty-two are Seniors. The faculty numbered twenty-five. Until 1915 there was very little apparatus for the laboratories and no home economics department nor library. At present we have a chemistry and a physics laboratory valued at Sl46,000. The library equip- ment is valued at 255,000 and the home economics at !ql41,000, Our manual training department contains all the modern improvements and is valued at ilS1,500. T-he physical training apparatus is worth 515500. Monessen High School has always been prompt in adopting new methods. VVe have -taken their good points and rejected poor ones. In some cases we even have anticipated the State requirements. XVhen the State changed the high school curriculum, Monessen was not thrown into confusion as some other schools were. VVe have always kept a- breast of t-he times through the years so we had very little to change. 7